Charles "Charley" Scalies Jr., an actor best known for playing Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa on "The Wire," has died, his family ...

The actor was best-known for starring as Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa in 'The Wire' and Tony's high school football coach in ...

Charley Scalies, best known for his role as Thomas “Horseface” Pakusa on The Wire, passed away at 84 after a long battle with ...

He got his big break starring in the Al Pacino film “Two Bits,” but is best known as Thomas “Horseface” Pakusa, a dockworker ...

The news of his death was confirmed by his daughter Anne Marie Scalies to The Hollywood Reporter, stating that he died at a nursing home in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Charley Scalies was born in 1940 in Philadelphia and ... a dockworker and union member in “The Wire” Season 2. He also played Coach Molinaro in “The Sopranos” season 5.

Charlie Scalies, who appeared in every episode of The Wire's second season, is remembered as an actor who "exuded something genuine." ...